I was thinking of self-organized citizens, in the way some self-governed open access projects on the net have established hierarchies (i.e. wikipedia). Everyone can be a candidate, people can judge their contributions almost directly, and thus be more informed voters. Politics in much of the west depends too much on who you know, and who pays you to pay old media pundits to promote you. The tech sector has barely touched the way politics is conducted (i believe mainly because geeks detest the way politics is run and opt to escape to libertarianism).'

I don't really think it's a big deal if online-voting servers go down. It's not like you have to pay billions to re-run the elections.